Hi Eric, it doesn't shrink for me, it expands. And I'm pretty sure it's 1cm, not 1mm (which is about the vertex spacing), so the guide must be wrong. We'll fix it
Bruce On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Eric Moulton wrote: > Thanks Bruce. I just checked the TkSurferGuide and noticed that it says the > scale bar is 1mm (which looks about right). However, while the scale bar at > the default zoom looks fine, I find that it's length behaves strangely (it > shrinks) when I zoom into the image. Does the distance value change, or > might there be something wrong with my display? > > Eric > > > On Mar 25, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Bruce Fischl wrote: > >> Hi Eric, >> >> in tksurfer click view->scale bar to see the 1cm bar. >> >> cheers, >> Bruce >> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Eric Moulton wrote: >> >>> I was wondering if freesurfer has a way of generating a scale for >>> distance, similar to what one would see in the legend of a roadmap. >>> I'm thinking of using such a scale for a 3-d pial surface-render of an >>> averaged brain (as generated using make_average_surface). Since it's >>> a 3-d image, I had in mind a sort of 3D Cartesian coordinate scale, >>> with scale bars for the x, y, and z directions. Does freesurfer have >>> some visual representation of a distance scale like I've described, or >>> perhaps some alternative? >>> >>> Eric Moulton PhD >>> Assistant Neuroscientist >>> P.A.I.N. Group >>> Brain Imaging Center >>> McLean Hospital >>> 115 Mill Street >>> Belmont, MA 02478 >>> Phone: 617-855-2604 >>> Fax: 617-855-3772 >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Freesurfer mailing list >>> Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu >>> https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer >>> >>> >>> >> > > Eric Moulton PhD > Assistant Neuroscientist > P.A.I.N. Group > Brain Imaging Center > McLean Hospital > 115 Mill Street > Belmont, MA 02478 > Phone: 617-855-2604 > Fax: 617-855-3772 > > > > > _______________________________________________ Freesurfer mailing list Freesurfer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu https://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail.
